Manipulating your perception of time?

**CbmGraphics** · 08-30-2016 07:26 AM

So, the question is how would you go about training your self to manipulate your perception of time at a whim? Your brain does it by its self depending on what you're doing, so it must be possible to grasp conscious control of it and change it when need be. How exactly would you train your self to change it? I would assume some sort of meditation to get into your mind and tinker with things but that's as far as I could think of doing. Past the step of getting into a meditative state I don't know what to do next.

**DreamyBear** · 08-30-2016 04:54 PM

Time is like you say, a perception. And perceptions is a state of mind.

So you question translated for what you ask for is: Manipulating your mind?
Manipulation in itself is the urge to transform someone or something that would naturally resist the manipulative outcome. So the word manipulation essentially refers to cheating the natural change-process in some form. But I assume that your intention wasn't really to learn or use manipulation as something negative.

May I ask why you find interest in manipulating the perception of time?

**CbmGraphics** · 08-31-2016 02:26 AM

There's no specific reason, i just think it'd be useful. From being on a plane to going on a long car ride, wouldn't it be nice to make that 8 hour trip feel like 30 minutes? Along with the polar opposite, you're doing something you may never experience again, so you could change your perception of time and make a second feel like an hour.

**ThreeCat** · 08-31-2016 03:58 PM

I think, in general, if your mind is occupied with something you find fun or interesting, the time will pass quickly. During plane rides, since I am a big scaredy cat, I will read a book or play a computer game. This can make a large amount of time go by quickly.

On the other hand, if you want time to slow down, just don't so anything. Just sit there. Longest day of your life. If you are thinking about stuff, time will pass more quickly. If you are just being aware, time will seem to pass more slowly.

**DreamyBear** · 08-31-2016 04:31 PM

Oh ok. Yeah It may sound like a nice and tempting idea at first. But if we examined this idea a bit more, we will stumble up on all kind of paradoxes that comes with this idea of reduce or increase "time" in any exciting or bored state of mind. Time is only a perception to the mind. The mind needs the resistens of time to expand it's awareness further. So the boring 8 hour trip might feel boring or like a pain to the mind, but that is only because the mind isn't aware enough to appriciate the moments during this trip. If the mind is only used to be high on certain occasions. Then that means that it is reduced it's awareness to a smaller range of moments where full aliveness can be felt.

It's nothing wrong with wanting the high of life. But essentially it boils down to the perception of mind, and boring moments holds some of our greatest lessons since we notice the boredom in time. So a high awareness in boredom is more like an investment to our sense of fulfilment since the mind becomes expanded beyond it's previous resistent level to life.

We always look to expand our awareness in some ways, but many ways can also be counter-productive until we become aware that we work against our selfs in some way or another.